Seven people went on trial in Azerbaijan on Tuesday in the latest of a series of cases against staff of independent news media, prompting accusations of a crackdown on the press.

The Jewish community in Azerbaijan’s capital gathered to pray for the incoming president and celebrate the strong ties between their nations.

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings. The most prominent of the defendants,

Azerbaijan's President Aliyev renews demands for the Zangezur corridor, jeopardizing the fragile peace process with Armenia and raising regional tensions.

On one of the last days of the past 2024, when most people are thinking about how good it is to celebrate the New Year and Christmas, an event occurred that forces Russia to think about building relations with one of the states of the Transcaucasus.

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Baku on Saturday, the parties discussed the prospects of bilateral relations, the Azerbaijani presidential website said.

Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner, former Bundestag deputies, were members of the German delegation to the international human rights organization to which Azerbaijan belongs. Both were implicated in the so-called Azerbaijani Laundromat —a Europe-wide lobbying and money-laundering scheme uncovered by OCCRP in 2017.

After passing his early Friday medical, Ridle Baku was officially unveiled by his new club RB Leipzig early Friday afternoon. The 26-year-old re-unites with former VfL Wolfsburg chief personnel

Azerbaijani human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was sentenced by a Baku court to 10 years in prison on Monday on an array of corruption and other charges that he denied, his lawyer told Reuters. "We are dissatisfied with the court's decision and will file an appeal,

Learn how this bank is developing the best talent in order to grow the non-oil segment of the economy in Central Asia.

LEIPZIG, Germany (AP) — Leipzig has signed wing back Ridle Baku from Bundesliga rival Wolfsburg after an injury to Benjamin Henrichs. Leipzig said Friday that the 26-year-old Baku had signed a 2½-year contract to 2027. He will be available for Sunday’s home game against Werder Bremen as the league restarts this weekend after its winter break.